Heroin overdose, with toddler present, leads to arrest in Old Greenwich

By Robert Marchant

Updated 3:33 pm, Thursday, October 6, 2016

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GREENWICH — An arrest warrant was served on a woman who allegedly shot up heroin and overdosed while her young son was watching cartoons — and crying.

Ashley Bagnati, 28, turned herself into police headquarters earlier this week and was booked on a charge of risk of injury to, or impairing the morals, of a minor, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

The incident occurred on March 29. According to the application for an arrest warrant filed at Superior Court, police were called to an apartment building on the Post Road in Old Greenwich, “on a report of a subject suffering from a heroin overdose.” The call came in around 8:20 in the morning. When the call for help was made by a resident of the condo building, who is dating Bagnati’s mother, she was “unresponsive, displaying difficulty breathing and that she had an extensive history of drug use,” the court filing stated.

After treatment by medics, police said they found a syringe near Bagnati, who told them she had relapsed after “being clean.”

According to the affidavit, the homeowner was preparing to give Bagnati and her young son a ride when she did not come outside with the child. When he went back inside, according to the court document, the youngster was crying in front of the television and Bagnati was in a state of heroin overdose. His age was not specified.

The youngster appeared “healthy and cared for,” police observed. The social service agency was contacted.

After her arrest Monday, Bagnati was released without bail and ordered to appear in court Oct. 11.